{"id":17711,"date":"2019-08-27T16:32:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T06:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/au\/?p=17711"},"modified":"2019-09-02T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:33:49","slug":"celebrating-20-years-of-creating-an-incredible-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bullhorn.com\/au\/blog\/celebrating-20-years-of-creating-an-incredible-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 20 Years of Creating an Incredible Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 8th marks a very special day in the history of Bullhorn. It’s the day, we celebrated our 20th anniversary. Since its beginnings in 1999, we\u2019ve helped put the world to work while striving to make a positive impact on the lives of our customers, employees, and the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in that time, the recruitment industry has undergone incredible changes: candidate and client needs have changed, technology has evolved, and new innovations and ideas continue to emerge every day. One thing remains constant: the people. Just like the recruitment companies we serve, our business is built on the foundation of relationships.<\/span><\/p>\n

With that in mind, our anniversary is not just a celebration of Bullhorn\u2019s history, it\u2019s a celebration of the people who made this happen: our customers, our partners, and our employees. Here are some important and memorable highlights from the first 20 years of Bullhorn.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Early Years<\/b><\/h3>\n

Bullhorn is now a global tech company with 16 offices around the world, 178,000+ global users, processing more than 78 billion transactions a year, but it began as an online marketplace for creatives to search for contract work.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1999, Art Papas and Barry Hinckley teamed up to start a tech company, and the Bullhorn journey began. The first line of code was written in Art\u2019s apartment in Cambridge, MA, and as many as five people came to work every day. Art wrote much of the code for Bullhorn\u2019s original applicant tracking system and a portion of this original code was still in use up to 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our products and services have evolved radically since 1999, but we\u2019ve always been obsessed with creating an incredible customer experience. Bullhorn\u2019s first customer, Leslie McIntyre, approached Art and asked his team to build a system to help speed up cumbersome processes for her recruitment company. Art pitched the idea of hosting the entire system on the Internet, and while it seemed risky in those early days of the World Wide Web, Leslie had faith in Art and his vision. The result was one of the first versions of Bullhorn\u2019s ATS. No matter the scope of the request, the Bullhorn team did everything they could to grow the system to meet the needs of Leslie and her recruitment company. This project was the inspiration behind Bullhorn\u2019s \u201cService\u201d core value.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bullhorn Mission<\/b><\/h3>\n

How have Bullhorn\u2019s core values evolved over the last 20 years? Our first mission statement was <\/span>To power the desk of every staffing and recruiting professional. <\/span><\/i>When Bullhorn officially expanded internationally in 2009 and added an office in London, we added the word \u201cworldwide.\u201d In 2013, Bullhorn refined this mission statement with our current core purpose, <\/span>To create an incredible customer experience<\/span><\/i>, <\/i><\/b>a mission that every Bullhorn employee works to achieve every day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n